Socrates Quotes on Soul (8 Quotes)

Virtue is the beauty, and vice the deformity, of the soul.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Give me beauty in the inward soul may the outward and the inward man be at one.

And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.